Creepypasta is a fiction subgenre that consists of mini-horror stories passed along online and through the years. From chain emails to TikToks, it’s grown to encompass both the chilling and the ...

First they were called chain emails, and they were sent by people like your weird aunt who always wore a Big Dog t-shirt. An online version of physical chain letters, chain emails propagated hoaxes ...

Shadows dance across pixelated screens, weaving nightmares from digital threads. Emerging from the depths of internet folklore, a spine-chilling genre transforms collective imagination into terrifying ...

It recently occurred to me that, for all the discussion of freaky creepypasta you and I have done here over the past few months, we’ve never gone in depth about what creepypasta is. I mean, yes, we’ve ...

On June 8, 2009, Eric Knudsen posted two black and white images he had Photoshopped to a forum called "Something Awful." The forum was hosting a photo manipulation contest and was taking submissions ...

Scary stories aren’t the stuff of campfires and sleepovers anymore. For adults who still enjoy a good spook, the internet is the place to turn for tales of horror and the supernatural. Specifically, ...

In the big, wide world of creepypasta, there's one I keep coming back to again and again: “Abandoned by Disney.” Written by Christopher Howard Wolf, frequently known by the moniker “Slimebeast,” it ...

This story is completely true. It happened right here on the internet, on a night just like this. Not too long ago, people shared jokes, stories, and lame inspirational messages by copy/pasting text ...

Creepypastas are the new campfire tales. They’re short, scary, and read most often as urban legends. What truly distinguishes creepypasta stories, however, is that they’re typically centered around ...

WAUKESHA (WITI) -- Two 12-year-old girls are accused of plotting their friend’s murder for months — and attempting to kill her this weekend. 12-year-old Morgan Geyser, and 12-year-old Anissa Weier ...